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Liz Keating
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Lesson plans: Grades 7-8
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Liz Keating's Discussions
5 K-12 Technology Trends for 2010
Started Dec 14, 2009
Have Overdue Books? There is ALWAYS Hope for Their Return!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dede Pazour Nov 29, 2009.
YA Author Hopkins Banned from School Visit
Started Sep 27, 2009
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SL5530-Foundations of School Librarianship
Why have school librarians? SL5530 is designed to help students develop an understanding of the history of school library programs, their current place in the public school system and society and their future. Fasten your seatbelts!
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Why have school librarians? SL5530 is designed to help students develop an understanding of the history of school library programs, their current place in the public school system and society and their future. Fasten your seatbelts!
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- About Me:
- Seasoned (old) K-12 librarian, Media Specialist, Information Specialist, Teacher Librarian (depending on the year): ADHD, insatiably curious, techno geek, passionate friend.
• DU graduate, returned to Colorado in 1990 after nineteen years as an elementary school librarian in Michigan.
• Great library job at Columbine High School until April 20, 1999. Stayed at CHS until the new library was completed then began a career as a competitive intelligence pro (see www.scip.org).
• Traveled internationally sleuthing for major corporations.
• Taught research skills, interviewing, investigative techniques to government officials in Tbilisi, Georgia and in Trinidad/Tobago.
• Returned to education three years go as librarian at Leawood Elementary School. Best job in the whole world: a very supportive principal, engaged eager teachers and wonderfully committed children.
I am most proud of my two girls. Libby, the oldest at 29, did her best to set a record for number of schools (seven) attended pursuing a bachelor’s degree while competing internationally on her horse. Emily, age 24: four years, one school-DU! As a DU alum, I was asked to speak at her 2007 graduation-one of the coolest things I have ever done!
Now at Leawood, I have had the most amazing opportunity to introduce technology and its integration possibilities into the curriculum. With the funding of several grants and a generous parent organization we have added considerable hardware to our district-allotted technology bank. Students use Web 2.0 tools in their learning and teachers are differentiating curriculum using many online resources. Many of our teachers now have delicious accounts, our students bubbl to organize their thoughts, share documents on Google doc, Skype with students in Canada (our neighbors to the north), epal with students in Latin America (our neighbors to the south) and blog on classroom wikis. Our teachers are gradually gaining self confidence in their own technology expertise, and they are now truly beginning to integrate 21st century resources into their teaching. It is an exciting time to be an educator!
As a volunteer, my passion runs to the boomer generation. As part of a Rose Community Foundation grant, I developed curriculum for a new civic engagement project to utilize well-trained boomer volunteers in the hospital setting. New patient-centered care models are becoming very popular nationally and St. Anthony Hospitals is an exciting part of that movement utilizing boomers as patient advocates.
As an empty nester, the world is now mine! I can eat, sleep, travel, work and play on my own schedule. I can take time to rethink what it is that I want to do with the rest of my life-what I want to be when I grow up!
- Hobbies
- Working...really!
Sailing
Skiing
Writing
- Current position and employment location
- Jeffco Schools, Leawood Elementrary School Librarian
University of Denver, adjunct professor
University of Colorado-Denver, adjunct professor
Netsearch Solutions, Owner
- What professional development topics are you interested in learning more about?
- ISTE standards for teachers and my personal quest: NTLB (No Teacher Left Behind)
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From Rae Ciciora on Banned Author Visit
I see both sides of this article very clearly. Parents are protective of their children and want to make sure they are not exposed to things they can’t handle. BUT, the topic of the guest speaker pertains to middle school youth, whether parents want to see that or not. I myself was shocked when a seventh grader at my son’s middle school was arrested last month and suspended for possession of marijuana in her locker. I was absolutely floored when I found out it was my son’s girlfriend. Two years… Continue
Posted on October 2, 2009 at 4:39am
Attention Bloggers: "WordPress Adds Real-time Update Alerts, Makes RSS Relevant Again?"
Great article this morning in Fast Company for those of you that love the blogosphere (and there are a lot of you!) Consider this: "70 million blogs tracked by Technorati: "Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we're seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That's about 1.4 blogs created… Continue
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 12:07pm
What is this NING thing?
NING, rhymes with sing, and is taking the social networking world by storm. Several students have wondered about this NING thing, so I did a little research. The NING company webiste's HELP page describes it well. Wikipedia of course chimes in with another good description. I tell people it is a private Facebook. You… Continue Posted on August 22, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment
If you are a FB (Facebook) type, here is the UC Denver School Library group info
UC Denver ILT-School Library & Instructional Leadership Program
NO assignment here, just info...no wait.....maybe the professor with the biggest percentage of students joining gets a prize. Laura and Su?
Interesting links on the right sidebar too (under related groups):
I judge… Continue
NO assignment here, just info...no wait.....maybe the professor with the biggest percentage of students joining gets a prize. Laura and Su?
Interesting links on the right sidebar too (under related groups):
I judge… Continue
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 5:30am — 1 Comment
GOOGLE Squared Launched Today!
This is SO cool-implications for students could be huge! Type a regular search string in GOOGLE Squared and GOOGLE returns the results in a "square." Clever? Definitely! Potentially llfe changing? Maybe :-)http://www.google.com/squared
Posted on June 11, 2009 at 8:00am
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“The Library District began replacing the Dewey system in favor of a customer-friendly, bookstore-like, neighborhood subject arrangement of books with the opening of its Perry Branch Library in Gilbert in 2007. To date, four of the District’s 17 libraries have gone “Dewey-less” to the rave reviews of customers.
…the National Book Foundation recently applauded this inventive approach with a 2009 Innovation in Reading Prize. “
-Press release from Maricipa County Library District, May 6, 2009
I've only been a librarian three years, so I might have to think about this for a while. My initial reaction is Dewey-less might be a good idea.